Career
Ito has spent the majority of his career at Shimizu South-Pulse where he played for 18 years between 1993 and 2010. Ito was capped 27 times for the Japanese national team between 1997 and 2001. An unused substitute at the 1998, he is most well known for his goal against Brazil in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta which earned Japan a shock 1–0 victory.